St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-26

| Dickey and would strike in the Yorktown re-
! gion, which Is now some sixteen miles from
| any road, and is sowing over twenty-five
| thousand acres OF wheat. 1t was stated that
| inst at present all energies were given to the
| Lake Superior extension, but the Dakota one
would follow. 1t had not been definitely de-
| cded whether the road would eventually seek
| the Missouri river at bismarck or Fort Yates
! sixty miles south. 1t was represented TO the
| management that the country west of Dickey
would soon ne all settled up. The Russians
| had already taken up the coteauS, the rough
| est and poorest part of the country.
/ Those interested in the public sale of
| liquor object especially to the feature of the
option law that puts the towS in the hands OF
| the rural voters on this question. The towns
! are allowed TO impose an additional license to
| that of the county, or even prohibit if the
! county votes for license, but they cannot
] keep the saloon If the majority IN the county
| is adverse. Most of the larger towns will
vote for license, bur in nearly all cases the
| country vote will be largely, for exclusion.
| The bibIlouS forces are becoming very much
exercised. They apprchend that nearly every
| county that secures the requisite petition for
u vote viii vote anti-licenSe.
| Petitions under the local option law are al
ready in circulation in Ransom, Cass, Barnes
and the other counties north visited by Mrs
| Barker, the w. G.. 7. L. president. This is
| the main object of her campaign in the North.
! The law requires that the petitions shall have
|
voted ut the last preceding election. Some
| embarrassment is likely to DE found in de-
| terminipg the number of legal voters, and an
| unfrendly county board will be difficult to
satisfy on this point Still where there is an
! emphatic majority opposed to license some
| way will be found to enforce its will.
The Republican papers are airing the con-
| ceit that GOV. Church mas split the Demo-
| cratic party in the territory and that some
how the Republican party will be benefited.
AS there is but one Democratic Legislative
| district in the territory, it does not appear
! how the Republicans could gain much, even
| if there should be q little discrepancy be-
| tween the governor and some of his party
| leaders. But there Is not likely to be any
| serious division in the party, even if some OF
| the appointments are not satisfactory TO all
| Democrats.
! A. L.. Balm spent couple of months at
| Bismarck watching the legislature, and on
| his return to st. Thomas in Pembina county,
! made himself solid with his fellow citizens by
| saying: For farming give me the Red river
valley. have talked with men from every
! part of Dakota and none can give so good an
account OF their homes as the citizens from
| this fertile region The counties OF Pembina,
| Walsh, Grand Forks, Trail and Cass are
! destined TO be the brightest jewels in Da-
/ kota'S diadem."
! The Mitchell Republican, which always has
| an eye on the FOrty-SXth parallel, blurty
calls the Bismarck Tribune a liar in stating
| that the legislature did not appropriate more
| for the institutions north than was. absolutely
needed. 1t cites especially the S13,220 for the
! penitentiary and S2g3, 900 for the asylum, and
| insists that man should he an inmate of the
! latter who insists that these are legitimate
! figures. They show that Bismarck and
jamestown were fortunate in their represen-
| taton, and, possibly, that there is Il screw
| loose i'll the method of voting appropriations.
AT q temperance meeting in Tower City in
| Cass county the last week, out CT its 400 pop
I ulatlOn 100 signed the pledge, and nearly
| every person i'll the crowded house stood up
| TO vote against the saloon. AS this is the
| town that Il year or two ago had several hum
drcd members of social drinking club, it
| looks al if there might be growing reason for
| the alarm said to be felt by the drinking in
terests nj Fargo lest the county may, under
the local option law, vote down the city.
Some Of the papers insisting that there
| is still force in the Old congressional statute
| prohibiting the governor OF a territory from
| receiving any fees or salary through the
action of the legislature. If this could be
made to apply, il is claimed that it will stop
| the annual flow Of $1,000 into the executive
| pockets. There need be no apprehension
| that Gov. Church will accept any perquisites
| not sanctioned by law.
Pierre is preparing to put up handsomely
| TO secure the extension of the Duluth road
| from Aberdeen TO that point, and FaulktOn
| Blunt and all the other towns in the range
are ST. etching out their hands and will open
! their pockets. The connection with the lake
| city is especially sought. The management
Of that road talk as if this extension was on
| the programme.
| This is the pleasant way the Yankton Her
aid refers to the soft snap given the lucky
| editor Of the Sioux Falls Press: Gov
| Church has been pleased to keep E. W. CIld-
| well at the Democratic trough rs commits
| sioner to compile the laws Of Dakota. Of
elNnlf.
| but will draw Il big salary all the same and
run Republican newspaper
A man who claimed the name of Will
| Walker lately went to q leading South Dakota
| town that has rising boom. having a carpet
| bag alleged to contain $50. 600 to be invested
| in real estate. He left in the night and for
! got to adjust hotel bill and several other
| debts. He is believed to have variety of
| names, and will be heard of at other places.
Scotland, In Bon HOmme COUNTY, has shared
| the religious revival work so prevalent of
| late in the territory, and it is related that one
farmer was converted enough 10 go to 81 mer
chant and confess that in 800 bushels of oats
he had taken pay for twelve bushels of sand.
| II Is not reported that single dealer in coal
anywhere has been converted.
r. ". Wheelock, editor of the Mitchell Re-
publican, has been AT Bismarck the past week
and claims TO have learned that Col. Benton is
holding on to the treaSurerShip until one
Loderwick, who, he says, Gov. Church has
| brought out from New York. acquires legal
right to hold the position. 1t is possible Mr..
| Wheelock does not know.
| On the Pierre region the farmers are re-
| ported iubiant over the prospect of a big
| crop this year. 1t is said that the ground has
never before been in rs good condition at this
| time of the year. Persons in Pierre are re-
| ported blowing and planting gardens. but
| they are a little previous, as the frost may
| nip the early banaras.
The people Of Harlem, in Sargent, claim
| assurance that the Milwaukee road will leave
| that as the terminus of its Dakota & Great
| Southern branch this year at least and in
| consequence the place is having quite
! BOOM Pratt, Of Fargo, is about to open Il
bank there, and the place promises to make
a nice town.
Miss Nina Van voorhis the belle of Griggs
county, lately visited friends at Indiana.
| Penn, and, 10 the sorrow OF several young
men at COOperstOwn, on March %, was mar
| ried 10 \. j. Loughry, of the Pennsylvania
! town.
| The sheriff of Hanson county followed TO
| Minneapolis the insurance solicitor Place,
| who was charged with victmiZing some
of the Dakota people, and brought him back.
! He was admitted TO bail, waving eXamina-
ton.
Editor Adams, OF the Cooperstown Courier.
returned from his sixty DAYS as Il legislator
| with plumes in his hat, and at once ordered q
ncN press lOI us oliicc tliu all elegant frame
for the portrait Of the editor-statesman.
1t is surprising how easily the vast body of
snow has gone off. the ground absorbing
nearly all the water like thirsty man. Very
little found its way to the streams and rivers
The ground was very dry and needed it,
The ice broke in the river at Pierre March
Is, which is one day earlier than in any since
| there was recnrd-which means back to 1875.
In only three out of the twelve years has the
ice failed to go out in March.
Quite Il number of bridges on the Verrnil-
ion river in Turner county were washed away